Police have arrested a British mother accused of faking her own death for a £140,000 pay-out but was found hiding in Canada.

The woman, 45, who has not been named, was held by fraud detectives along with her 19-year-old son and his 24-year-old guardian.

The younger parties allegedly presented fake documents claiming the mother had died in a car crash in Zanzibar.

But after the insurance firm grew suspicious of the documents, they refused to pay out and handed the case over to the police.

Case: The woman, who has not been named, was held by fraud detectives along with her 19-year-old boy and his 24-year-old guardian after she handed herself in at Perry Barr Police Station in the West Midlands (pictured)